Comments on: Cerf: Hollywood interested in BitTorrent

Co-creator of TCP/IP says several movie producers have talked to him about using the file-swapping technology to distribute content.

Then, Now and in the Future!

It is quite interesting to have read in this article about the father of the Internet, Vinton Cerf making comments about peer-to-peer file-sharing technologies and the like. If my memory serves me very well... I think I can recall hearing on the radio and later viewing on the television all those spectacular NASA space rockets and shuttle launchings as well as televised landings on the moon... My point is this, have we gone a full circle when it comes to communication technologies. IBM as one should recall was a pioneer in the case of "peer-to-peer" technologies having much earlier incorporated this functionality in its OS/2 Client and Server Computer Operating Systems: re: http://www.aaxnet.com/design/os2.html . With the advent of higher speed data transport capabilities such as that offered by Internet2... the lines between the televison and the emerging internet technologies are certainly being blurred.

[hadaso]

Is it surprising? What took them so long?

Is it surprising? What took them so long?

They don't have anything against Bittorrent technology. They only oppose P2P applications aimed at making it easy for people to share copyrighted content, i.e., those applications that make it easy *to find* things to download, not against the technology used to do the transfer of data.

[Johnny Mnemonic]

Indistiguishable

The searching and the downloading are a part of the
Bittorrent protocol and are indistinguisable from
each other.